Prostatic Acid Phosphatase Is Not a Prostate Specific Target
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- 15 July 2007
- journal article
- Published by American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) in Cancer Research
- Vol. 67 (14), 6549-6554
- https://doi.org/10.1158/0008-5472.can-07-1651
Abstract
Prostatic acid phosphatase (PAP) is currently evaluated as a target for vaccine immunotherapy of prostate cancer. This is based on the previous knowledge about secretory PAP and its high prostatic expression. We describe a novel PAP spliced variant mRNA encoding a type I transmembrane (TM) protein with the extracellular NH2-terminal phosphatase activity and the COOH-terminal lysosomal targeting signal (YxxΦ). TM-PAP is widely expressed in nonprostatic tissues like brain, kidney, liver, lung, muscle, placenta, salivary gland, spleen, thyroid, and thymus. TM-PAP is also expressed in fibroblast, Schwann, and LNCaP cells, but not in PC-3 cells. In well-differentiated human prostate cancer tissue specimens, the expression of secretory PAP, but not TM-PAP, is significantly decreased. TM-PAP is localized in the plasma membrane-endosomal-lysosomal pathway and is colocalized with the lipid raft marker flotillin-1. No cytosolic PAP is detected. We conclude that the wide expression of TM-PAP in, for instance, neuronal and muscle tissues must be taken into account in the design of PAP-based immunotherapy approaches. [Cancer Res 2007;67(14):6549–54]Keywords
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